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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Some Buyers Leave Me With Questions Instead Of Money

A bit of a rant today.

I have cards listed on COMC and I keep up with the pricing, changing them about once a week depending on the market. I have a 2015 Contenders autograph card listed at $1.15, there is only one card cheaper. I got an offer last night of .63 cents, I countered with .85 cents, probably more than fair and considering I paid .60 cents to have it processed by COMC so I was being reasonable. The guy came back with .63 cents again.

Who they hell does that? I mean come up a penny or two but to come back with the same offer I just countered what did he expect? Needless to say I just declined it outright, I probably should have come back with $1.25 just to be an ass.

3 comments:

Yeah, some people just don't understand how to haggle. I don't have any experience with COMC, but I love the Best Offer on Ebay. I'll throw out a low ball offer expecting the seller to counter, and I almost always will take the counter. Occasionally though they'll accept my first offer and then I feel like I'm making out like a bandit!

That is really annoying, and as Tom alluded to, it does happen on eBay as well. The whole point of a best offer option is to agree on a price somewhere between yours and theirs. When a buyer (or seller) refuses to budge, I almost always walk away on principle - unless it's something I really want.

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I started collecting as a kid but by the time I hit my teens my interests were elsewhere. I returned to the hobby in 1992, just in time to see the junk wax era go in to full swing. My collecting interests have changed over the past 25 years and I prefer to focus on just a couple of players.

My collection is very specific now because I want to keep it controlled and organized, I now focus mainly on my Ken Griffey Jr. & Jay Buhner collections.